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...Herman Kahn predict that before long Japan, whose gross national product now exceeds $200 billion, will overtake the Soviet Union, with its $600 billion G.N.P., for second place. Kahn envisions the 21st century as "the Japanese century," the time when the hardworking, disciplined people of Japan will even surpass the prolific but bedeviled U.S. Richard Nixon stated the challenge last week as he sent to the Senate the treaty draft that restores Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa. Said the President: "The potential for cooperation between our two economies, the world's most productive and the world's most dynamic, is clearly...
...center field. Dead center field, that is. No power hitter, he makes up in accuracy what he lacks in distance. "The only time Lee's off the fairway," says Archer, "is when he's answering the phone." As for his short game, few if any of the pros surpass his skill at, as he puts it, "dropping the ball on the Governor's lawn." Once there, he putts like a pool shark. "My swing's not much," he says, "but it's good for a short fat man." Then, smiling slyly, he adds, "Say, it's worked for a while...
Whether or not Frankfurter was right about the extent of the Constitution's requirements, few questioned his devotion to the idea that principles surpass preferences. For that reason, he had the respect of many who disagreed with him, and that respect surely enhanced the court's authority as well as his own. To be sure, Justices do make value choices. But in such cases, Columbia's Herbert Wechsler has said, they "are bound to function otherwise than as a naked power organ. This calls for facing how [those choices] can be asserted to have any legal quality...
...best players of the last two decades," said Tennis Pro Jacques Grigry, "and I've never played one with better form." Bystanders may have wondered exactly what Grigry meant; still, there was no question that Actress Raquel Welch showed signs of developing an athletic prowess that might well surpass her dramatic skill. Ducking a tenacious flock of reporters eager to hear about her recent split from Husband Patrick Curtis, Raquel took up tennis and even skiing, in which she moved from beginner to high-intermediate status in three days. Add roller skating (she plays a rink queen...
Zuckerman (2-4-6) and Fagan (1-5-6) dominated the statistics, and Zuckerman now leads the League with 25 points. Cornell's Al Rimmer will probably surpass him, however...